Googly eyes are always a big hit in preschool so I thought I would try using them as a fun easel starter… As I have done for each of my easel starters, I glued the googly eyes to blank sheets o...
I have had several folks ask me what water beads are so I decided to write this post to share what they are, how we use them, and where you can get them… What are water beads? Water beads are a...
With summer on its way, we have been talking about things you can do on a sunny day during circle time and then we played a game to add a little different spin on drawing a picture of a sunny dayR...
In my previous post, I shared with you how we explored the book “I See A Song” by Eric Carle. This book is filled with lots of shapes and design that overlap each other and emerge into di...
The children and I took a picture walk through the book titled, “I See a Song” by Eric Carle. We actually went through the book several different times and on several different days. Each...
This is a simple game that my students love to play. For those of you who may not be familiar with this game, I wanted to share it with you today… 1. Have your students line up (side by side) a...
Recently, the most asked question that has come my way is “what do you do with a child who won’t behave in the classroom?” Well, to tell you the truth, this question isn’t alw...
The number one request my students have had over the past few weeks was to make volcanoes. I would have let them make them sooner but it seemed with Mother’s Day and all the other things we wer...
If you give a child a pitcher of juice, chances are she will spill it… If you give a child a crayon, chances are she will scribble with it… If you give a child a puzzle, chances are she w...
This is just a fun watermelon idea I thought I would take a minute to share with you. I just love watermelon and with summer time quickly approaching, we spent a little time learning about watermelon...
In the Bam Radio Show titled, “Teaching and Caring for Shy, Socially Sensitive Children” some terrific points were made about integrating shy children into the classroom experience. Below...
Thank you to everyone who joined in and entered the Guidecraft sorting food tray give-away… Without any further ado, the winner is… Diane Jones Comment #178 “I would LOVE the...
I’m pleased to introduce you to Preschoolspot. PreschoolSpot is a collaborative effort brought to you by Vanessa Levin of Pre-K Pages, Karen Cox of Prekinders, and me- Deborah J. Stewart of Teach Pre...
Part of our Mother’s Day gifts included a drawing of our moms. To help my young children draw a mother, I drew my own mom (sorry mom for the final results:) …. As I drew my mom, we talked...
The weather is just wonderful outside this time of the year and to take advantage of this, I put together a set of simple easels for some outdoor easel painting… To make the outdoor easels, I p...
Hosting a mother’s day party in the preschool classroom can take quite a bit of advanced preparation. Selecting a gift for the children to make, teaching the children a few songs to sing, and d...
I am always on the look out for unusual items to add to my classroom and recently I picked up two different kinds of magnifiers at a local IAEYC conference I attended… We have been talking abou...
We have been talking about bugs off and on lately and so I thought I would make us some sticky table bugs to explore… I have been saving lids all school year and we used them for all kinds of g...
In my previous post, I shared with you “The Listening Book” by Paul Showers and the listening games that we played. To extend this activity, the children were each given a little clipboar...
“The Listening Walk” by Paul Showers is a book I have owned for as long as I can remember. I really wanted to share it with my class but had to go digging through my piles of books laying...
My students have been asking me to pull out the shave cream so they could play with it and last week, we had a shave cream extravaganza…. You can really put anything in shave cream and it will ...
Anytime I read a story that my students seem to connect well with, I try to extend the concepts into other content areas of my classroom. Sometimes, I have planned ahead and just assume, from prior e...
Over the past school year, I have watched my students go from building simple block structures to more complex block structures. The children’s play with blocks has also went from playing side-...
One of my favorite ways to spend time with my grandson is sitting down to read with him and my grandson truly loves the reading experience… Reading with my grandson has given me the opportunity...
We have had some beautiful spring days and some of them were unseasonably warm. This was a perfect day to set out a little water tub play for my grandson… I added a few rubber ducks to a small ...
This month, our Guidecraft Educator Group is giving away this wonderful set of six sorting food trays… Each tray includes pieces that represent a different meal or a different culture. The tray...
My grandson and I went on a little outdoor texture walk. I made an interesting discovery on this nature walk that I hadn’t expected… For our outdoor texture walk, I walked my grandson aro...
April 30th through May 6th is being presented by CCFC (Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood) as national Screen-Free Week. According to CCFC, Screen Free Week is… “Screen-Free Week is...
We have been exploring caterpillars and butterflies and to add a little fun to our snack time, I set out butterflies in a baggie for the children to make their own butterfly snack… Inside each ...
Today we read the wonderful book called “More” by I. C. Springman and Brian Lies. This book is about a bird who keeps adding more things to the nest until the nest gets too heavy and the ...
Du verfolgst nicht mehr . Rückgängig machen?
Deutsch
English
Suomi
Svenska